Recent content by device_node

Wait... What are you installing from? A Windows 7 CD/DVD? And why can't you boot from the CD/DVD?

Please specify the exact device you're trying to plug into. I've never seen or heard of a dual 2.5mm audio configuration (and I've seen and heard of quite a lot of things over my lifetime). I doubt you'll find such an adapter commercially. You might have to make one or get a headset made for...

I've never heard of the need for charging a laptop battery before being able to use it. I've heard of some underpowered A/C adapters powering the laptop but not charging the battery while you use the laptop, but never not starting the laptop. My best guess from my experience is that you may...

OK, that being said, I just looked at your YouTube video where you plugged and unplugged the A/C Adapter. Curious. Power management circuitry changes many different settings when you go off A/C, so it could be some relationship like that. Or a failure in the power supplies. I just can't...

It's a bad touch screen. Get the tech store to replace it for free. Of course, they'll argue and say you broke it, but see if you can convince them in the absence of any physical damage. If they have any integrity at all they'll fix it, having failed after a few days with no physical damage...

I don't think 20 second holds and taking the battery out will do anything to affect booting. Holding the power button for 5 seconds signals the circuitry to generate a reset, and it is fully as good as taking the battery out for booting problems. Certain hardware subsystems (network, etc) may...

I have a Toshiba Tecra Z-50. I connect to several WiFi networks: at home, at several work locations, at friends' houses. It used to be that when I put my computer to sleep at one location and woke it at another, it would connect to the different network (remembering its WPA key) and I'd be...

I had a GPU on a Toshiba that would fail in this manner from heat. Turned out it had a poor heat sink and a fabric screen over the vent holes which inevitably became clogged up. I got replacement motherboards on Ebay for a while, and replaced the MoBo for this cause about 5 times (a couple of...